Tuesday, January 1, 2013

2013 begins, with all the promise and all the challenge that each new year brings.

I'm looking forward, as always, to learning -- and re-learning -- some of the old lessons that this land has tried so hard to teach me. I am doing so in hopes of really learning the lessons this time.

In so far as anyone ever does.

That, it seems to me, is one of the great gifts of a piece of land and all that comes with it. The chance to learn and to go on learning, the same lessons year after year, and discovering that the lessons, however often learned, and the learning itself, never grow old.

I love this little farm more than I can say. It has taught me so much, and continues to.

About Me

I've written a dozen or so books, fiction and nonfiction, including the current bestseller HISTORY DECODED, which I co-wrote with Brad Meltzer.
I've written . more articles and essays than I care to count, written/co-designed half a dozen computer games and from 1990 - 1996 was the Editor of OMNI Magazine. Now I live on a small farm in southwestern Virginia and am trying really to get down to work.